The company said it was working out a transition plan that would determine the fates of repair and support services, as well as FlipShare, Flip’s video-sharing service.

First, keep in mind that if your Flip camera works now, you can continue to enjoy using it. The shutdown won’t affect the usefulness of the camera itself.

The shutdown may eventually affect FlipShare, but so what? FlipShare, which lets people post and share videos, as well as view them on phones and TVs, may not be a huge loss. You can use a service like YouTube to do just about everything you could do on FlipShare, albeit with a few more steps.

FlipShare did have some built-in editing, but most computers come with video-editing software that will do the job, even though (once again) it may require extra steps to import and export the video you want to work on.

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